Support for the Tissue Collection of the Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences

该项目将支持加州科学院(CAS)爬行动物系冷冻组织收集的进一步发展和继续扩大。爬行动物系将获得一台带有自动拨号器警报系统的超低温冷冻机和组织储存用品。该部将能够继续执行从新获得的标本中例行保护组织样本的政策。由于新闻部的工作人员和外地工作人员参与了世界各地的收集工作，特别是非洲和亚洲的偏远地区，新闻部意识到这些组织样本可能对科学界具有潜在价值。考虑到这一点，该部致力于向科学界提供纸巾。事实上，收集到的大部分组织是由校外科学界使用的，而不是用于部门研究人员正在进行的研究计划。额外的冰柜还将极大地便利将爬行动物组织(储存在Osher分子实验室设施中的5,000多种组织)与卫生部的组织收集相结合。在对分子实验室的组织样本进行物理再提取的同时，该部将把相关数据与主计算机数据库合并，这些数据目前保存在分子实验室的无索引手写日志中。这将提高他们为科学界服务的能力，使标本和数据检索变得高效。此外，在完成分子实验室组织的整合和计算机化后，该部将在其网站上增加一个可搜索的组织数据库，使科学界能够远程访问。

This project will support the further development and continuing expansion of the frozen tissue collection of the Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences (CAS). The Department of Herpetology will obtain one ultracold-temperature freezer with an auto-dialer alarm system and tissue storage supplies. The Department will be able to continue their policy of routinely securing tissue samples from freshly acquired specimens. As the Department's staff and field associates engaged in collecting efforts worldwide, with particular mention of remote localities in Africa and Asia, the Department is aware of the potential value that these tissue samples may have to the scientific community. With that in mind, the Department is committed to making tissues available to the scientific community. In fact, the majority of tissues collected are used by the extramural scientific community, not for the ongoing research programs of Department researchers. The additional freezer will also greatly facilitate the integration of the herpetological tissues (over 5,000 stored in the Osher Molecular Laboratory (CAS) facilities with the Department's tissue collection. Concurrent with the physical recuration of the Molecular Laboratory's tissue samples, the Department will incorporate the associated data, now kept in the Molecular Laboratory's unindexed hand-written log, with the main computer database. This will enhance their ability to serve the scientific community by making specimen and data retrieval highly efficient. Further, upon completing the integration and computerization of the Molecular Laboratory tissues, the Department will add a searchable tissue database to their website, allowing remote access for the scientific community.